Women Nobel Peace Prize winners
By: Anita Price Davis and Marla J. Selvidge ; foreword by Regina Birchem.
Contributors: Selvidge, Marla J., 1948-
Publisher: McFarland & Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Pacifists -- Biography.; Nobel Prizes -- History.; Women and peace -- History.; Peace -- Awards -- History.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "From Bertha von Suttner (1905) to Wangari Maathai (2004), this work provides a detailed look at the lives and accomplishments of 12 female recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. Each biography, while presenting an overall picture of the subject's life, naturally concentrates upon the work that earned her the prize"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Bertha von Suttner (1905); title: Jane Addams (1931); title: Emily Greene Balch (1946); title: Mairead Corrigan Maguire and Elizabeth (Betty) Williams; title: Mother Teresa (Agnes G. Bohjaxhiu) (1979); title: Alva Reimer Myrdal (1982); title: Aung San Suu Kyi (1991); title: Rigoberta Menchu (1992); title: Jody Williams (1997); title: Shirin Ebadi (2003); title: Wangari Muta Maathai (2004).